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...most widely exhibited photographs are, "Cook and Hen, Merlin," by Hugh G. Wagstaff, which received awards in Bolton and Manchester, England; and "Female Hen Harrier," by Niall Rankin, which shows a bird found only in Great Britain, in the Orkney Islands, and the outer Hebrides...
Died. Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, 72, famed longtime British Laborite; of a heart attack; in Tilford, Surrey, England. Son of a poor Yorkshire weaver, he passed the civil service examinations at 22 and was sent as a customs official to the Orkney Islands, where a bicycle accident crippled him for life. He went into politics and became first Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924, 1929-31). His hard-headed insistence on rigid economy brought the British Government through the early part of the Depression. Philip Snowden was branded a "traitor" to the working class when he and Ramsay...
...expect another picaresque comedy from him, but The Men of Ness is as different from his first book as a Soglow cartoon from a Rivera fresco. Serious this time, Author Linklater has written a carefully primitive, saga-like chronicle about the Vikings who once harried and inhabited his native Orkney...
...become a Terrestrial Year. Instead of ringing only the North Pole with observatories, the massed nations have sent some men to the Antarctic Zone, some to tropic regions. Africa and South America have six stations each. Some 250 men, and a few women, were last week scattered between South Orkney Island off South America and Kraulshaferi, Greenland, between Hooker Island and Point Barrow, Alaska, whose spring icepack was a U. S. cinema villain last week in Igloo (TIME...
Coincidence brushed remote points in the North Atlantic one day last week. 1) The crew of a Dutch trawler fished from the water near the Orkney Islands a package containing the papers of an American, turned it over to the U. S. Consul at Amsterdam. The papers proved to be the pilot's license, passport and permit of Parker ("Shorty") Cramer who was lost with Radioman Louis Oliver Pacquette last fall while flying a transatlantic survey from Detroit to Europe, via Greenland and Iceland, for Transamerican Airlines Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). 2) While the consul was scanning the papers...